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Rachel Drinkard/Turnagain Times While Girdwood residents wait for Crow Creek Road to be paved, they have to endure pot holes and a rough gravel road. The project is expected to be completed at the end of October. |
By Rachel Drinkard
Turnagain Times Correspondent
Does the shape Crow Creek Road is in rattle your teeth and have you seeing red? You’re not the only one.
“I’ve already had four shot shocks and three flat tires since I’ve been working on this project,” said Carl Breeden, who is currently doing concrete work on California Creek Bridge on Crow Creek Road.
“People that live down here are always telling me about popped tires,” said a flagger on the project, ”I tell them I’ve had two popped tires, new tires, on my car because of this road.”
Thankfully, though, relief is due soon.
“We’re on schedule to have the pavers here in the first week of October,” reported Fike Industrial Construction owner, Colton Fike.
“We hit a bunch of bedrock nobody planned on which may hold up finishing the bridge,” he said, “but we’re aiming for the end of October to be done with everything and out of here.”
Reseeding and re-vegetation will almost certainly have to wait until next spring due to cold temperatures, but managers on the project are aiming to overcome unforeseen problems with the building of California Creek bridge, and look to finish up everything else by the contracted finish date of October 31.
The paving early next month should include all of the road and, depending on progress, the bridge as well.
Until then, what exactly is the culprit of the rough road and all those flat tires and ruined shocks?
“We wanted to go local with the fill and what we brought in from Portage is the best kind of fill for road-building,” said Fike, “but unfortunately the worse for driving on.”
He points out, however, that the fill used on the project is from the same source as that used throughout Girdwood.